01-15-2023, 10:16 AM
Persons now near 100 obviously cannot expect to live much past 125. About everything must go right. Example: Lisa Marie Presley just died at age 54, only seven years older than her father at death. Heart attack. Elvis had lots of bad habits, and I can't say anything about her.
Even without suspect genes, certain behaviors (incarceration, inactivity, obesity, smoking, alcoholism, using street drugs, low or limited [in content] formal education, STD's) seem to ensure avoiding an extreme lifespan. Poverty creates its own problems of depression and anxiety.
I'm 67 and I am already a dinosaur. No, not the cuddly purple one -- just someone unable to adapt to hyper-modernity unless it is easy or undeniably safer. I have yet to learn how to use the DVR function on cable TV. I go hiking and I work out, and I remain curious about science, history, politics, and travel. Mass culture? I haven't related to it since I was in my twenties. Marijuana? I didn't like it when I was in college, and I'm staying clear of it today. Newfangled technologies on cars? More and bigger repair bills. If I did travel it would be heavily for antiquarian purposes.
If I lived to 90 I would be a freak. If Trump-like figures are our political future, then I would be better off, if at all, facing it only after reincarnation (should there be such a thing) with better preparation, like being so addled on prolefeed that I would see nothing wrong with an Orwellian nightmare.
As it is I was born closer to the time of horses and buggies than to i-Junk.
Even without suspect genes, certain behaviors (incarceration, inactivity, obesity, smoking, alcoholism, using street drugs, low or limited [in content] formal education, STD's) seem to ensure avoiding an extreme lifespan. Poverty creates its own problems of depression and anxiety.
I'm 67 and I am already a dinosaur. No, not the cuddly purple one -- just someone unable to adapt to hyper-modernity unless it is easy or undeniably safer. I have yet to learn how to use the DVR function on cable TV. I go hiking and I work out, and I remain curious about science, history, politics, and travel. Mass culture? I haven't related to it since I was in my twenties. Marijuana? I didn't like it when I was in college, and I'm staying clear of it today. Newfangled technologies on cars? More and bigger repair bills. If I did travel it would be heavily for antiquarian purposes.
If I lived to 90 I would be a freak. If Trump-like figures are our political future, then I would be better off, if at all, facing it only after reincarnation (should there be such a thing) with better preparation, like being so addled on prolefeed that I would see nothing wrong with an Orwellian nightmare.
As it is I was born closer to the time of horses and buggies than to i-Junk.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.